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Priority as a country. building a better bargain for the middle class and for americans who want to work their way into the middle class. at the same time, im focused on my number one responsibility as commander in chief. thats keeping the american people safe. in recent days weve been reminded once again about the threats to our nation. as i said at the national defense university back in may, in meeting those threats, we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security and pres...

Vacation ten days from now, 11 days from now, with a lot on his plate as he goes into tough fights with congress this fall. joining me now a columnist for the daily beast and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. great to see you both. lets talk about youre in the green room or something with the president and about to go into the east room today and hes going to, we understand, try to explain the surveillance programs and announce new limits and road manual for a...

Consulate. the state department is warning u.s. citizens not to travel to pakistan. pakistan interior ministry said it was not aware of any threat. pakistan remains a hot bed of terrorism. the city is now home to extremists who are sympathetic to al qaeda. president obama, of course, facing the cameras and questions from reporters. thats later today. its going to be be his first news conference in more than three months said to again at 3:00 p.m. hes set to be asked about the rocky relationshi...

Relationship can advance u.s. interests and increase peace and stability and prosperity around the world. where it can, were going to keep on working with them. where we have differences, were going to say so clearly. my hope is, is that over time mr. putin and russia recognize that rather than a zero sum competition, in fact, if the two countries are working together, we can probably advance the betterment of both peoples. chuck todd? >> thank you, mr. president. given that you just announced a...

Dramatic new step to try to crackdown on some of these leaks. crackdown on some of the computer systems administrators like edward snowden from leaking classified documents. he revealed that a cyber security conference today general alexander did, that he is slashing by 90% the sum 1,000 system administrators he has ed snowden the idea being to try to cut down the number of people that have access to this info. take a listen. what we be in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing our s...

Surveillance programs stuck in limbo at the moscow airport for more than a month, before he was granted temporary asylum in russia. between us and russia, things are not awesome right now. things have not been awesome for i dont know -- things have not been awesome since 1947 basically. but theyre bad enough now on trivial levels and on deeply serious levels, that the white house today essentially said, lets call the whole thing off. the white house today announcing that president obama has canc...

Administrators from leaking classified documents. revealingt at a cyber security conference he is slashing by 90% the nearly 1,000 systems administrators employed by his agency or hired as contractors. >> what we are in the process of doing not fast enough is reducing our system administrators by about 90% for the first reason which was to make our networks more defensible and more secure. >> reporter: an nsa official told fox the agency had been planning the cuts before the leaks but is now acc...

Catch, it led to the warning that we have all been following all week, the warning about the terror threat wasnt exactly perfectly clear as to location of the target or anything like that but i think the significance of this is it shows that despite what we may have heard that al qaedas core is diminished. as it turns out, theyre very much alive and well and very much in control and in touch with the affiliates. much more cohesive than we originally realized. jenna: youre reporting about the con...

Without a unified structure. unlike an octopus, when you cut off the head the tentacles regroup and thats exactly what happened. taken advantage of the unstable governments. and thankfully flew n samplet and drone strikes we have been able to get rid of the lot of the senior leadership after the killing of usama bin laden. >> laura: those are bush programs. >> actually, obama ramped them up tremendouslily and unfortunately there is a lot of members of your party that seem intent in living in the...

Enforcement officials are getting trained that once they get these tips from nsa surveillance and other places they should cover up that the information they got came from any of those surveillance programs. they should, instead, pretend they got the information through traditional legal law enforcement means. they should launder the source of the information. these guys did not get the information through traditional law enforcement means they got it from the thing weve all been thinking theyre...